Hi,
First I would like to congratulate you for the latest release of
Icinga. I am studying a change in our organization from the regular
Nagios to Icinga fork. I have a current installation of:
- Nagios;
- Pnp4Nagios;
- NagVis;
- Merlin;
- Ninja;
- op5 Reports Module;
I think this structure is too much reliant on each of the
programs. For example, if my Merlin backend stops working properly
than my Ninja interface will be outdated, making my team miss an
important alarm. Because I need a better interface, I needed Ninja and
the required op5 reports module, making me have a second broker to
nagios (ndbned, required by the reports module).
Watching the webcast of Icinga vs Nagios, I was convinced this
architecture sounds way better, since with the concept of the API,
every component reliant on the Icinga data would be using the same set
of data.
I am not trying to be rude, please don't get me wrong but I am
having trouble seeing this architecture at work. I still have a lot of
the same issues compared to my current setup, because IDO is still a
broker to icinga, so it can get sync problems the same as every other
backend. The new slick web interface is dependant on the IDO data and
if the IDO crashes or stop working properly, I still depend on
watching the regular classic web version to see the alarms (since we
don't use notifications in any way in our setup).
Some questions:
1) Am I missing something? Right now, the only benefit I personally
get from Icinga is the new web interface, setting me free of ninja +
op5 reports module, which in turn releases me from having the merlin
backend, allowing me to use mklivestatus instead of IDO, simplifying
my environment (which is good, but not the reason I tried Icinga in
the first place).
2) How can I make sure from the new Icinga Web interface if IDO is in
sync with Nagios? (in Ninja, if the data stopped updating for some
time in Merlin i see a warning on the top of the screen)
3) What are the addons already integrated with Icinga-API (instead of
using data directly from the backend)? Is Nagvis already supported?
Thanks in advance,
Ricardo Trindade
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